Software M&A Blog

I follow professional boxing and recently read an article that talked about the global popularity of fighters. I found it interesting that they used the number of Twitter followers to help determine this.

I attended Casual Connect, the Casual Games Conference, in Seattle last week. It was an exciting scene that certainly lived up to its name, as I saw plenty of old friends and met a lot of new folks doing some great work in this burgeoning market.... Click here to read more

I am in the international terminal at Kievs airport. Interestingly, despite living in Europe for 25 years, this is my first trip to Ukraine. I was moving to Munich in 1986 just as Chernobyls radioactive dust was settling in Bavaria. So maybe that played a... Click here to read more

Announced in April, SuccessFactors has just closed their transaction to acquire Plateau Systems for an aggregate value of $290m. The CEO has said that theyve seen four times the expected interest from current and new... Click here to read more

In our sell side software M&A activities, I frequently run across small software companies that are market leaders in their niche. At first look, this seems to be an attractive affirmation of the quality of the technology and business model. Buyers... Click here to read more

Corum ran an accelerated M&A process within a very compressed timeline, generating interest from North America and in Europe from a multitude of potential buyers, and culminating with a successful sale.